Marking bookmarks – Ways to boost marking within schools

This post summarises my journey so far in creating a higher degree of consistency in the marking of students work. It is a process that has gained pace through the support of colleagues on Twitter and, thanks to the incredibly prolific writers such as Tom Sherrington, @headguruteacher, I have a clearer sense of where I need to move practise on to next.

It is important to set out at first why this matters. We are not seeking to improve marking so that all the books look the same and we